Former President Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice for more than year, is “coming to the end.”
Carter’s grandson Jason Carter provided an update at the Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum Tuesday, The Hill reported.
“First of all, as you all have expected, I’m sure, my grandmother’s passing was a difficult moment for all of us, including my grandfather,” Jason Carter said. “And this is of course, the first of these forums since that day, but the outpouring of love and support that we as a family received from the people in this room and from the rest of the world was so remarkable and meaningful to us.”
He then turned his attention to his 99-year-old grandfather.
“My grandfather is doing OK. He has been in hospice, as you know, for almost a year and a half now. And he really is, I think, coming to the end,” Jason Carter said.
“As I’ve said before, there’s a part of this faith journey that is so important to him,” he said. “And there’s a part of that faith journey that you only can live at the very end, and I think he has been there in that space.”
The younger Carter spoke of the last time he saw his grandfather. It was a couple weeks ago, when they watched an Atlanta Braves baseball game.
“I said, ‘Papa, you know, I can’t — people ask me how you’re doing, and I say I don’t know.’ And he said, ‘Well, I don’t know myself,‘” Jason Carter said.
“So he is still there,” Jason Carter said.
Jason Carter serves as chairman of The Carter Center Board of Trustees.
The former president’s 100th birthday is Oct. 1.
